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Integrated Datasets in Europe for Ageing Research
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The aim of the IDEAR network is to investigate how determinants in later working life, during the retirement transition, and in early retirement influence for how long older individuals are able to live actively and healthily. This will be done using by state of the art statistical modelling in well-established prospective occupational cohort studies, longitudinal ageing studies and registry data from Sweden, the UK, Finland, France and Denmark. These studies represent countries in three different welfare regimes and cover up to several decades from mid-life, retirement, early old age, and the beginning of older-old age.
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General Information

Year created
2012
Types of cohorts
  • Population cohort
Countries
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • Finland
  • France
  • Denmark
Setting
International
Funding
This work was supported by the Swedish Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare [FAS #2012-1661] and [FORTE #2019-01225]; the Academy of Finland; and the Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K01336X/1].
Criteria of cohort's to be included
Prospective occupational cohort studies
Socio-environmental context
  • Work-related stress
  • Work/life balance

Participants

Number of participants

Total
5,000,000
With harmonized data
150,000

Age range of the samples

Minimum age
10
Maximum age
74

Methodology for harmonization and integration

Strategy of harmonization
Ex-post
Data processing methods
  • NA
    • Type of infrastructure
    NA
    Integrative data analysis
    • NA
    Software
  • NA

    • Number of cohorts

    Total
    10
    With harmonized data
    6
    Will more cohorts be harmonized?
    Number of harmonized variables (max.)
    15

    Access

    Availability of metadata
    Availability of individual data

    Individual Studies

    Acronym Name Study design Participants Countries
    UK Household Longitudinal Study Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study Population cohort 40,000
    CONSTANCES Cohorte des consultants des Centres d’examens de santé Population cohort 200,000
    ELSA English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Population cohort 12,099 United Kingdom
    FPSS Finnish Public Sector Study (FPSS) Population cohort 26,886
    Gazel The Gazel Cohort Population cohort 20,625
    IMAS IMAS project (Insurance Medicine All Sweden) Population cohort 119,219
    SLOSH Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health Population cohort 18,915
    WHALE study Well-being in Hospital Employees (WHALE) study Population cohort 35,894